TEN years ago this week, the inquest into Raoul Moat’s shooting of his former girlfriend Samantha Stobbart and love rival Chris Brown heard the incident was “like something from Scarface or Reservoir Dogs.”

Horrified witnesses said the former bouncer’s attack, in Birtley, near Chester-le-Street, on July 3, 2010, resembled a scene from the violent films and his killing of Mr Brown.

The first day of Moat’s inquest was on September 5, 2011, held in a packed court at Newcastle Crown Court.

On July 2, 2010 Miss Stobbart and Mr Brown went out for a drink before returning to Birtley. Waiting outside the house, Moat opened fire.

Within two hours, Moat headed to Rothbury, in Northumberland, to set up camp. Shortly before shooting PC David Rathband, Moat called Northumbria Police to say he was hunting for officers.

Also that week, a North-East doctor at the forefront of a campaign against the Government’s controversial plan to overhaul the NHS insisted: “We will continue to fight it.”

As MPs prepared to vote on the Health and Social Care Bill, nearly 30 health professionals from across the NorthEast and North Yorkshire signed a letter saying the reworked Bill would “cause irreparable harm to the health service”.

The protest also accused David Cameron of “misleading the public by repeatedly stating that there will be no privatisation of the NHS”.

Dr Clive Peedell, a cancer consultant at The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, said: “The overwhelming feeling is that doctors want the Bill withdrawn.”

He said the Bill was a “clear drive towards increasing privatisation that goes completely against what the coalition Government is saying”.

Finally, a mother whose unborn daughter was given a five per cent chance of survival enjoyed her first day at primary school.

Louise and Chris Foster’s daughter, Rosie, was diagnosed with life-threatening prenatal conditions, but Rosie defied the odds to be born with only a relatively minor health condition.